You may have noticed some posts from our friends at the Strategist on the Cut. They’ll be dropping in every now and again, sharing their expertise on the basics you don’t have time to research and the weird and wonderful things you don’t yet know you need.

Hoo boy: Black Friday is exactly a week away and we are already completely overwhelmed by the already excellent sales bombarding us. Below, the best of the best of the current sales; we’ve paid special attention to items that would make good gifts.

So the Net-a-Porter sale (which we think is its Black Friday sale more or less) is really great at the moment, and at press time at least, there’s still quite a bit of stock left, so we are going to spend a little time surfacing some gems if that’s all right. We are officially Veja-sale watchers these days, and this is a good price for these cheerful green ones.

So we covered a few Coach items in last week’s sales roundup, but we realized that we merely skimmed the surface of the 30 percent off sale. This coin case would be a great gift for a sister-in-law type.

Yes, Walmart has a ton of Black Friday deals up already (we’ve been tracking them here), but there are also some non-B.F. deals afoot, like this li’l leopard backpack from Scoop that’s a good gift for a teen type.

We’re sticking some things here that are on sale for today (Friday) only, like these eucalyptus lyocell sheets from Sheets and Giggles (we know, that name!), which we learned are some of the best cooling sheets for those who run hot.